@erenwasrightt Idc if I’m the one person disagreeing it’s easily Kanye and Hov.
Watch The Throne
So Appalled
Run This Town
never let you down
Clique
Diamonds remix (classic)
List goes on and on
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Kendrick fans swear he has replay value, yet I rarely see him dominating the any charts,,
Praise🎀@Praiseinterests
Imagine the state of hip-hop without Drake.
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@Durableeee @PhucShuMeanMane @HotNewHipHop Do you believe Ak when said Drake doesn’t have classics and that he’s been absolutely terrified of Kendrick for over a decade
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@PhucShuMeanMane @HotNewHipHop I believe him and his label sources more than I believe you, sorry Yaya
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"Dj Akademiks says" why are the owls so fcking slow? 🤣
Durable@Durableeee
Remember when UMG said they were going to “humble” Drake when he drops, only for him to break countless records like a week later
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What’s the “essence” of movies then?
Aren’t directors supposed to be happy their (movie) is consumed by lots of people? Am I missing something here?
The goal is to pass a message, list people’s spirit, create awareness & sell tickets!
This is why Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 7 is better than The Shawshank Redemption!
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What’s the “essence” of rapping then?
Aren’t Artist supposed to be happy their PRODUCT(song) is consumed by a lot of people? Am I missing something?
The goal is to pass a message, lift people’s spirit up, create awareness& then MAKE MONEY FROM IT.
Why won’t I be happy to sell
CY Chels@SeewhyChels
🚨 Ebro says hip-hop has become too obsessed with sales Ebro pushed back on using commercial success to measure greatness, saying “Wrong chart, champ.” He argued “McDonald’s sells a lot of hamburgers… that doesn’t mean it’s the best hamburger,” adding that moments like Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt celebration and Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out prove culture and impact matter more than numbers. Via Rap Life Review
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@SayMane901 @KevCoke6 The boy sounds like a Boy Scout lol
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These be the same men calling a grown man “the boy”
🏁 LOOTED VUITTON DON 🏁@ItsJustPay
I think it's cringe how much y'all say Hov instead of just saying Jay-Z
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My next update, the jig is up
Nigga, I'm up ten
Wrong chart, champ, you gotta look up again
Niggas look up to Hov, I never looked up to them
Them crackers got your publishin', gangster, go talk tough to them
Don't talk success to me, you niggas is workers
In perpetuities, how your contracts is worded
Don't make me go further
The Roots remember, even when the trees pretend
Not too much on my name
Don't forget who I am
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Swimming Pools was bigger. I was already a huge fan of him and stayed up for it to drop. (heart pt 3 dropped the night of which was so legendary).
I told everybody I knew GKMC was gonna be incredible and never felt more validated from anything musically lol.
The song that did more than Swimming Pools for him would come out on another albums. Even ppl that never heard of him before would yell “Guh I know ya want dis duhk! Guh I’m Kendrick llama”.
That feature blew him tf up for the casuals
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@tervisscoot @Jasp3r_0 Idek if it’s hated. Very rarely do I play an album for 2 years straight. I listened to GNX everyday for like 2 years in the gym all I had to do is hit shuffle (and skip the title track lmao).
Astroworld was another album like that. Thanks Tervis
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@Jasp3r_0 Most overhated album ever, it's one of my favorite Kendrick albums
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@KyleBrandt Sorry that was me. I have IBS.
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There is a SOUND in The Odyssey that I still haven’t recovered from. I can’t shake it.
Never heard anything like it.
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@aruboyserafr By that I just mean a bigger than life persona and skill set that attracts attention. Somebody that is counter-cultural, unique yet interesting. Believe it or not early Eminem fit the bill for this too.
And the album has to be generational and undoubtedly great
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Dawg rappers gotta deliver great music. Yes for reasons that have nothing to do with Drake or Kendrick the genre is dying. Young rappers aren’t getting the budgets. Plus half aren’t talented/creative and thrive off vitality and aura.
Somebody young needs to come and shake things up. Rap prolly needs a new DMX type of persona
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High-key that beef was the worst thing to happen to hip-hop, The new generation that were supposed to be the front runners ( The Lil baby's, The Nba youngboy's aren't even on people's minds hell even future, a whole Hendrix.
Kendrick Lamar was this what you wanted? A divide???
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@skyyreturns It’s called a transactional relationship
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@mantequillamo @countmagic As a big fan of movies and hip hop this conversation is extremely interesting to me lol
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I dont like this comparison though lol respectfully. I’m not arguing against the fact that they’re 2 of the best ever. I agree with you.
David Lynch is very obscure but a genius. Kendrick’s not some obscure artist he dominates the charts when he drops lol. He’s still mainstream af his last album broke all kinds of records. But also gets enormous critical acclaim as well. So I thought maybe QT, I even considered Christopher Nolan.
Drake is the biggest ever no doubt, but he also doesn’t have the massive critical acclaim Spielberg has with movies like Jaws or Saving Private Ryan. Idk who the perfect comp for Drake would be. It would have to be someone huge, with decent audience ratings but mid to bad critical appeal. With earlier work that was much more highly regarded. That’s why I thought Michael Bay. Explosions, CGI. But Bad Boys is a cultural classic and one of his earlier movies. Maybe a more fair comparison for Drake is Ridley Scott or James Cameron
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People eat at McDonald's as much as they do because their food is cheap, accessible and decent enough. Listening to any artist would cost you the same amount of time/money, so who a mass number of people listen to the most does say a lot about the perceived quality of that music.
CY Chels@SeewhyChels
🚨 Ebro says hip-hop has become too obsessed with sales Ebro pushed back on using commercial success to measure greatness, saying “Wrong chart, champ.” He argued “McDonald’s sells a lot of hamburgers… that doesn’t mean it’s the best hamburger,” adding that moments like Jay-Z’s Reasonable Doubt celebration and Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out prove culture and impact matter more than numbers. Via Rap Life Review
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I stream. Obviously. Almost everyone does because it’s convenient. But here is the difference that you are completely missing.
My streams cost me nothing extra: I pay a flat monthly fee. Whether I stream an artist 1 time or 1,000 times, it costs me $0 more. It represents zero extra financial commitment to any individual artist.
I actively choose to open my wallet, spend $35 on a vinyl record, and hundreds on concert tickets for the artists I actually value.
That is exactly my point. My streaming data shows convenience, but my vinyl purchases and concert attendance show true demand. Streams can be fabricated, they can be misleading, they can be manipulated. An artist can have 100 million streams from people who just use them for background noise while cleaning their room like playing Rap Caviar, but can't sell a $30 vinyl or a ticket to a local venue, that streaming number is an illusion of success.
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@rationprotocol @OxNalds LOL all these dudes these YNs try to put over Hov have already said Hov is better.
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The reason Drake dominates the charts right now is due to unprecedented streaming volume driven by his massive triple-album release, which naturally floods music platforms with dozens of tracks simultaneously. Chart dominance is highly cyclical and entirely dependent on who has released music most recently. When an artist of this caliber drops a major project, they completely take over the charts, a phenomenon that was equally true for Kendrick when he released his own music.
While Drake achieves impressive immediate chart volume by releasing huge quantities of songs, Kendrick Lamar actually holds the upper hand when it comes to sustained chart longevity and song endurance.
For example, instead of dropping down the charts after the initial release week hype, GNX achieved a record-breaking 22 weeks at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart.
Janice STFU and Shabang relied heavily on massive social media pushes and TikTok trends. While this guarantees a No. 1 debuts, viral internet trends naturally flame out quickly as the general public moves on to the next soundbite like Spend Dat
Oppositely, Luther spent 13 weeks at number 1. Not Like Us stayed in the charts for 53 weeks. Longer than any rap song ever.
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@FULL96069165 @countmagic Okay I looked into it a bit. Essentially we’re both right lol.
“While a professional studio setup costs roughly the same for most artists from Drake to smaller artists, the total financial backing differs drastically based on star power”
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@rationprotocol @countmagic They spend more time making it but they’re budgets are different mostly due to promotion/marketing
Mixing and mastering songs and maybe clearing samples is pretty clear and straightforward as long as the label is involved
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@byrdmandx @RomeTrizy @Durableeee Streaming fraud is much easier to do today because it does not require shipping real products.
Even if some labels were bulk buying physicals that doesn’t even compare to the manipulation they can do today
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@RomeTrizy @Durableeee Actually physical sales were more fraudulent than streaming lol
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No. But today an artist can do big streams and cannot fill out arenas let alone stadiums.
Oppositely there’s massive country artists who don’t do a lot of streams but can attract huge arena tours.
Streaming is extremely easy to manipulate. You could drop an album with 25 + songs. An album with 12 songs needs 2 listens per song to match the 25 song album. There’s playlisting placements, there’s tons of manipulation. There’s people who even have discord chats to organize events where ppl play music 24/7 to bump their favorite artists numbers. Kpop fans are infamous for this.
That doesn’t represent true demand.
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@RomeTrizy @Durableeee So if you wanna consume music you must to to their concerts smh grow some brain cells bruh
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